European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes february plan to base Tanker planes in Britain revealed Fly Hoffman a military writer Washington a an outcry of British opposition has mown the cover on a closely guarded Pentagon plan to base big refuelling planes in the Pentagon has refused for months to reports of secret negotiations on stationing kc13s Jet Tanker planes at Greenham a base 44 Miles West of senior military officers in Europe Are known to feel strongly that Tanker each with a capacity Gallons of let Are needed in standby positions in Britain to refuel aloft the hundreds of fighters and transport planes that would be rushed from the United Stales in a War British military officers Are said to agree with this political problem i As Long ago As last a Nkang general in Europe told a or the future of tote plan was in doubt Ause it posed a prickly political prob i for the British As he put there has been a less than enthusiastic option to the idea from the then last week Michael member of parliament representing Benham publicly urged the i Tosh defense ministry to reject the he said the noise will be devas in what is a heavily populated confronted with the Pentagon acted s though the matter still was nato standby Airfield some military sympathy with the townspeople a Elvinh near the which has been a Inato standby Airfield since these sources acknowledged that the kc135s Are noisier than most other they also say the tankers need runways to Lake off with their fuel the Issue underscores difficulties faced Ilby and North Atlantic Alliance plan veers who believe it is vital to establish i More air and military Supply bases outside West where a congestion of Mill installations carries the risk of Quick if destruction in the event of a Surprise temperatures amt Nim Alimov lilt Aiu tic Chr Atiim by univ l h it in n n n ii a a u 10 t t u 14 if ii if is m h h u u ii t 11 it u ii if u ii u u 11 1 14 ii ii u 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governors held their regular monthly meeting monday apparently with out any Concrete measures planned to sup port the Dollar which continued its downward slide against other major cur the from the 13 richest West pm also heard a French report on measures planned or already taken to pre vent a collapse of the French franc through As official leaked from the held in strict privacy at the Bank at International but a source said that weakness of the Dollar was certainly discussed at length but that Noth ing new in the Way of concerted support had been decided dour Down to Zurich the Dollar dropped More than one per cent in Zurich trading falling to Swiss francs against the closing rate Friday of 9wa a representative of one of the major Western european Banks said the big five meeting of finance ministers at ver Sailles sunday did not discuss Concrete measures to support the the Versailles meeting involved the finance minister West Britain and the United reports said the ministers were told by France that it is determined to do every thing necessary to prevent the French franc sliding in the face of the March Gen eral the Central sources also discussed the devaluation of he norwegian Crown and the likelihood that among other nordic would de value As murder suspects unit incorrectly identified Germany Sis two men charged with the murder of 1 Samuel Register Hen were incorrectly identified in saturdays stars and stripes As being from Btry 3rd 35lh Field an army spokesman said the two actually Are assigned to Btry the spokesman two women being held in German custody in connection with the Case Are the Vic Tims wife and Sarah wife of 4 Howard not the wife of me of the men charged with the the spokesman pause in the war7 keeping cozy in 4 Wil Liam c 3rd eth inf catches up on us during a break in exercise Point additional army Potto by attack in 8th inf div mock was by Floyd Harrington Germany it finally while James Kirk and 1st officer spook of the Sta ship Enterprise pm off somewhere cruising the the run gob Empire declared War on the Vulcan the War Wilt not be seen on a television episode of Star nor is it being waged in the Black void of outer its being fought now in the rein Lan Pfalz area North of the War is actually so inf div exercise employing More than Sot called Cardinal the Vulcan Are played by the divisions m and its 3rd brigade has assumed the role of the villainous according to a division the 8th has been tasked with controlling cer Tain the major refer Ger exercise which will take place later this car Dinal he is being conducted to train the division and to test the control Ler apparatus the division expects to use during he said the methods the 8th is testing were developed by the 1st army who were the controllers of last years Reform we got copies of their directives Ami after action determined that they had a very Well executed we intend to retain the concepts they the exercise is also being used to Evalu ate the divisions modified armoured cavalry of miss Sheridan armoured reconnaissance the third has been equipped with a final As Well As motorcycles and other specialized equipment not found in a regular squad scenario training is also being Evalu and that where the Vulcan and the spokesman we have at tempted to develop Soldier exercise so they can get As the do so h will bit he said this was done by a sort of geopolitical the Klong on and the before the exercise began toe 1 published a newspaper and on slide show which a gowned the i both were seen by nearly every the division who were to take the according lot suffered a crippling blow u their which caused widespread to among the the other had a healthy entered by a recent discovery of l posits in the Zelsberg area the klingon thought that the Oil deposits would solve their i All they needed Wail excuse to Send their elite 3rd across the their excuse came after their i the 3rd brigade crushed in an overtime scurvy of the galaxies Vulcan i cording to a report in the Cardi t was the 15th straight i the crushers in this annual classic by the two upset Over the loss and i the economic plight of their 1 linens of klingon clamoured for the of death ruler of the Vader cleverly took his minds off troubles by chief military Leader and football mad dog to attack cans with his Ord brigade As of Friday the klingon had their the Zelsberg Oil and the Leaden of the two j signed a temporary a began near mind if and was
